The Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha stamped its authority in most parts of Darjeeling and Kalimpong in the just-concluded panchayat polls but suffered serious setbacks in Mirik subdivision
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The results till 8.30pm indicated that Trinamul had bagged around 73 per cent of the gram panchayat seats and 98 per cent of the panchayat samiti seats for which counting had ended
West Bengal BJP President, Sukanta Majumdar, sat on a dharna outside a counting centre at Balurghat College under Dakshin Dinajpur district, alleging fabrication in Panchayat poll results, counting for which started earlier in the day.
With counting of votes for the panchayat elections in West Bengal still underway on Tuesday the trend 11 p.m. showed that while the ruling Trinamool Congress is maintaining a clear numerical supremacy in all the three tiers there is a tight contest between the BJP and the Congress-Left Front alliance for the second position.